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Here is a link to a news story regarding an interesting study presented at ASCO: http://www.cancerpage.com/news/article.asp?id=10967
The authors left out that if a patient's urologist was owner of a URORAD center, 100% of patients got XRT. ;-)
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...The study of more than 85,000 men aged 65 and older with prostate cancer that had not yet spread uncovered a strong correlation between physician type and treatment.
If a man's doctor happens to be a urologist, for example, the recommendation for men under 70 most often will be surgery -- 70 percent of the time. For men over 75 who saw only a urologist, the choice was watchful waiting or hormone therapy in 91 percent of the patients.
But if they saw both a urologist and a radiation oncologist, 78 percent of younger men and 85 percent of older men got radiation therapy...
The authors left out that if a patient's urologist was owner of a URORAD center, 100% of patients got XRT. ;-)
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...The study of more than 85,000 men aged 65 and older with prostate cancer that had not yet spread uncovered a strong correlation between physician type and treatment.
If a man's doctor happens to be a urologist, for example, the recommendation for men under 70 most often will be surgery -- 70 percent of the time. For men over 75 who saw only a urologist, the choice was watchful waiting or hormone therapy in 91 percent of the patients.
But if they saw both a urologist and a radiation oncologist, 78 percent of younger men and 85 percent of older men got radiation therapy...
